"It is not just a diary of Bouton's 1969 season with
the Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros," says sportswriter Jim Caple.
"It's a vibrant, funny, telling history of an era that seems even
further away than three decades. To call it simply a 'tell-all book' is
like describing The Grapes of Wrath as a book about harvesting peaches
in California."